Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. I'm doing some research for an informational interview I have to go to as part of my application process to get into my Library and Information Technology course. I'm not sure how exactly it will be helpful, since technically I won't be a librarian (nor will it be a BA or Masters degree), just a librarian technician... which is according to them a level below an actual librarian? Or something to that effect.
It does make me kind of nervous on if I chose the right thing to do. Some of my reasons were the ones you posted here to NOT do it for (quiet, secluded, like books, just because I think it would be a good fit), and it does make me seriously re-consider if this is what I should do. I still have the opportunity to pull out at this point, and I'll come back to it after I go to the interview.. but I still think at this point I could do it. I would have to work more on my "people skills" as it were (I'm a horribly introvert and get nervous talking to people, but it's one of those things where if I do it regularly, I get better at it), but if I had to see myself doing /something/ with my life, I could see it being in a library. I suppose it's because I'm still getting used to the idea of looking at this as a career, rather than "just another job", and my brain is still trying to make sense of it.
I'm also looking into seeing if I wanted to continue an education with library sciences somewhere down the road, like with a higher degree, but that's well... down the road. :)
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Date: 2011-05-03 11:18 am (UTC)Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. I'm doing some research for an informational interview I have to go to as part of my application process to get into my Library and Information Technology course. I'm not sure how exactly it will be helpful, since technically I won't be a librarian (nor will it be a BA or Masters degree), just a librarian technician... which is according to them a level below an actual librarian? Or something to that effect.
It does make me kind of nervous on if I chose the right thing to do. Some of my reasons were the ones you posted here to NOT do it for (quiet, secluded, like books, just because I think it would be a good fit), and it does make me seriously re-consider if this is what I should do. I still have the opportunity to pull out at this point, and I'll come back to it after I go to the interview.. but I still think at this point I could do it. I would have to work more on my "people skills" as it were (I'm a horribly introvert and get nervous talking to people, but it's one of those things where if I do it regularly, I get better at it), but if I had to see myself doing /something/ with my life, I could see it being in a library. I suppose it's because I'm still getting used to the idea of looking at this as a career, rather than "just another job", and my brain is still trying to make sense of it.
I'm also looking into seeing if I wanted to continue an education with library sciences somewhere down the road, like with a higher degree, but that's well... down the road. :)